# Infomercials you watch over and over... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2001, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460 "2001-10-25T02:59:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460/21 "2001-10-26T07:34:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by meyer \* > \*\*I’ve always wondered if the people who make Nads realize that the word means something else. I like the part where the lady says “My daughter was having real trouble. I gave her Nads to help with her self esteem”. Umm, I’m not sure that would help! \*\* “I put Nads on my face!” As for the Showtime Rotisserie, that’s a quality product. It comes fairly highly reccommended. My favorite infomercial is a tie between the “Juice Tiger” (that guy’s eyebrows are THREE DIMENSIONAL! What the HELL is that?) and Nads. The double entendres in that ad are amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460/22 "2001-10-26T07:40:29Z")
“Nad’s looks like green toffee and can be applied anywhere on the body!” My ex-SO was fascinated by that phrase; he’d walk around repeating it randomly all day if he saw the infomercial in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460/23 "2001-10-26T13:00:30Z")
The Time/Life Jazz series is one of the few commercials I’ll let play through. As for infomercials, that Greer lady drops my jaw every time I see her. I don’t know what she’s selling but she’s bright, in awesome shape, has had three or so kids and still looks like Jeanie. What a dreamboat. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460/24 "2001-10-27T06:21:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SolomonGrundy \* > \*\*“Soup from dried beans in _20 minutes?_ appfh ghf… _ **That’s crazy talk!!!** _” \*\* That bitch was stuck in my head for WEEKS after I saw it. All of 'em were getting pretty testy though… **Comment:** “I can’t believe that is anything I’d want to eat.” **Response:** “In a few minutes you may end up eating your words.” I was waiting for them to throw down right there. ---
**Author:** ![droolstic1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/278dde/32.png) [@droolstic1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/droolstic1)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460/25 "2001-10-27T11:04:57Z")
OMG!! The Face Mover-Twitcher Thing!!! It’s like that arm and back and leg one except the sucker gives you a tick even blue won’t cover!! I sat there one night just rocking back and forth, laughing so hard that I thought I pulled something for a minute there. I mean for crying out loud people, if you want to exercise your face why don’t you frickin’ smile…or in fact, just watch that Infomercial once and I Ga-ruun-teee you won’t have to by a thing =) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460/26 "2001-10-27T12:42:44Z")
The hair removal ones (I can’t remember if it’s Nads or the spray) when they start removing hair from backs and ears. I thought that the next place would be the bikini line. Oxyclean. The stuff is basically washing soda and hydrogen peroxide. You can mix a huge batch of it for about $3. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460/27 "2001-10-27T13:58:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KSO \* > \*\*The actress is Judith Light–Karen from One Life to Life and that wretched sitcom with Tony Danza \*\* Actually, no, it’s not, at least not on the Infusion Cooker infomercial with Florence Henderson. That’s Robin Mattson, who is/was Janet on, uh, One Life to Live? (I remember her as the psycho on Santa Barbara, personally.) Mattson is also a trained chef, she had her own cooking show on the Lifetime network for a season (the next year they fired her and Bobby “I Stand On My Cutting Board, Doncha Wanna Eat at my Restaurants?” Flay was hosting) and at one time ran a restaurant. For that reason, it was offputting to see her shilling TV cookware. Light does infomercials for one of the acne fighters, but I can’t remember offhand if it’s Murad or ProActiv. The inofomercial I can’t get enough of is the TurboCooker. Weird dippy looking guy who might be trying to emulate Richard from “Caroline in the City” and slighty tubby short lady who seems to be sincerely excited that this device allows you to cook fish and hamburgers all at once – with the magical power of steam. I am at once repulsed and yet drawn in by the spectacle. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460/28 "2001-10-27T15:22:59Z")
Remember the Sobikawa Pillow? Didn’t they drop a bowling ball on it, or an egg or something? Oh yeah, I remember the Infinite Dress. It was like a car wreck…you know, you can’t help but watch it even though it’s horrible. That fake fashion show was sad. Those infomercials about the space age NASA mattress…those people are saying “it’s the best sleep I’ve ever gotten in my life”. It makes me so jealous. I watch that infomercial and think “ohh…I want that mattress…” Lorie ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460/29 "2001-10-27T17:56:02Z")
I remember the Flowbee from a high school friends house. His family had one of the giant satellite dishes and for a while, if you looked hard enough, you could find a Flowbee commercial on some channel almost 24 hours a day. We would sit and watch that infomercial back to back to back and _howl_ with laughter. and that was _before_ I discovered drugs! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460/30 "2001-10-27T18:10:18Z")
Then there was that little goof ball, Mike, who wore the glasses and the Bill Cosby sweaters. He once did one called Perfect Hair-fake hair, well, made from REAL hair, I guess, that you clip in. I will admit, it was good for this one lady, who had extremely thinning hair, and bald spots-poor girl. But you could go from long to short to long again…Who the HELL would wanna do that? They’d KNOW YOU WEAR A WIG!!! Or Victoria Jackson’s Make Up Kit-“You don’t look like you’re wearing make up, you just look like you have great skin!” Um, yeah, sure. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460/31 "2001-10-28T00:58:47Z")
You lot should appreciate this: Malcolm Gladwell profiled Ron Popeil for The New Yorker [that can be read at his Web site.](http://www.gladwell.com/2000/2000_10_30_a_pitchman.htm). I liked the man even more after reading this profile. It’s long, but if you skip to the end – titled “6. On the Air” – there’s a wonderful ancedote about his appearance on QVC. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@Bad\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_Hat)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460/32 "2001-10-28T07:07:10Z")
The Tree Lounge is pretty awesome. I can’t even describe it if you haven’t seen it, beyond that its the new generation of portable elevated seats for hunters out in the woods. the pitch guy is a total hillbilly, and the spokes model is giggle-icious. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460/33 "2001-10-28T08:14:30Z")
I love “Set it and Forget It” although they’ve apparently updated it. If you watch and listen carefully there are some dang wierd edits in that one, probaly to update the price and features. I also really like the Turbo cooker commercial, with that crazy woman pouring water and pop into everything. Also, don’t boil the dry moodles in the sauce. That never works. Why don’t you just microwave some mac’n’cheese while you’re at it? **shudder** Anything where they clean some unbelieveably filthy item with a new magic cleaner with get my attention for a bit, too. Shine up those copper pan bottoms for me. Finally, a bit of a heads up for the mega memory program. I checked out the introductory tape from the library and I can actually remember names better now. Seriously. It’s just a matter of convincing yourself that you want to remember people’s names. Then you’ll start to make a habit of remembering them. That’s what the tape says, and danged if that hasn’t been how I’ve been doing it for the last six months. -Myron ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460/34 "2001-10-31T11:01:53Z")
I’ve got to bump this, because I saw another great one tonight. It’s for the **Thunderstick** , a sort of hand blender thing. Not only is the infomercial itself hysterical, due to the unbeatable combination of the smart lady / stupid & disbelieving guy, it reminded me of the Nads comercial in a way. I mean, am I the only one who thinks **Thunderstick** sounds like either a pet name a man would have for his penis, or a pet name a woman would have for her vibrator? There’s even a part where a guy comes on the screen, giving some kind of testimonial. The caption reads: ``` John Doe Loves His **Thunderstick** ``` Who doesn’t, really? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials-you-watch-over-and-over/89460.md?page=1)